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The stuck truck

• 29 Jun 2010

Off  to work in the Te Araroa ute yesterday - to the yet-to-be-opened Whangamarino Redoubt - Dragway Road track. The nearby Waikato River is flooded, there's a  lot of surface water and  . . . oops, a  culvert we didn’t see. 

Farmer Mike Peters’ Nissan (foreground) tries to haul TA Construction Manager Noel Sandford’s Toyota (background) -  nope

Okay. So try 20 tons of Sumitomo . . . Tim Broughton diverts from hoisting grates off a pumping station nearby and rumbles in

One  chain attached to the drawbar . . . 

 One flex of the arm and . . . 

Sparky the trail dog has now got a truck to get back into.  Thanks all.